The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) will be a reflector telescope with an altazimuth mount and a Ritchey-Chrétien optical design, with the M1 (primary) and M2 (secondary) mirrors aligned by the telescope’s structure. Its primary mirror will be composed of hexagonal segments forming an optical surface equivalent to that of a 4-meter telescope. The

The INSIDE (Scientific-Technical Infrastructures and Institutional Services for the Strategic Development of the Canary Islands Observatories) Project – Phase 2 includes the following actions: 1. Advanced instrumentation for telescope facilities: Developments related to the WHT (William Herschel Telescope), HARPS3 (High Accuracy Radial Velocity

Beautifully, diverse grand theories, from the Standard Model of particle physics to cosmology, are connected to each other by a `dark' sector. Today, we understand that a mysterious non-luminous substance, called dark matter, predominates in the Milky Way's halo, our cosmic neighborhood. Our evidence of it, such as the unexpected rotational

The aim of NanoSpace is to determine the abundance, formation mechanisms and astrochemical role of carbonaceous nanoparticles in space. Carbon is ubiquitous in space; from small carbon and hydrocarbon molecules to fullerenes and large but currently unidentified polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbonaceous dust particles and ultimately life. The

One of the most intriguing and rare types of exoplanets are ultra-short-period (USP) planets. As the name indicates, these planets are defined by having orbital periods shorter than one day. Out of the more than 5500 confirmed exoplanets known to date, only 130 are USP planets, and approximately 40 have mass and radius measurements. Since the only